Riverdale

Police in south suburban Riverdale were consulting departments in neighboring towns to see if the man who sexually assaulted two teenage girls last week may have struck before. Authorities are also preparing a second composite sketch of the man who police said accosted the two 17-year-olds at gunpoint Thursday after they got off a Pace bus at 142nd and Halsted Streets, Riverdale police said in a news release. After the attack, the offender fled, and the teens ran to a home where they...

Riverdale Mayor Deyon Dean says crime has increased each year in his town since he moved there in 1993. Riverdale’s crime rate has gone up because of the teardowns of various Chicago Housing Authority complexes in recent years, which led tenants to move to Riverdale and other neighboring suburbs, Dean said Sunday. Although he didn’t have statistics to back up the claim that the former CHA residents have increased crime, Dean said “our programs in our...

Police early today announced the arrest of two more people in connection with a home invasion this week in the south suburb of Riverdale. A 16-year-old boy was already charged and ordered held Friday in lieu of $250,000 bond. Fletcher Wandick, 31, of Riverdale and Daviea Ashley, 21, of Chicago were also charged with home invasion and armed robbery, according to a release from Riverdale police. They are charged along with Rico Holmes, 16, for a home invasion Wednesday of an...

Rescue workers remove driver from pickup truck hit by a freight train in Riverdale this morning. (WGN Channel 9) A man was injured when a freight train hit his pickup truck in south suburban Riverdale this morning. Riverdale rescue crews responded shortly before 7 a.m. and removed the driver. A condition was not immediately available.The accident occurred along the CSX railroad tracks near Perry and Acme Avenues. Footage from WGN Channel 9's Skycam...

Police early today announced the arrest of two more people in connection with a home invasion this week in the south suburb of Riverdale. A 16-year-old boy was already charged and ordered held Friday in lieu of $250,000 bond. Fletcher Wandick, 31, of Riverdale and Daviea Ashley, 21, of Chicago were also charged with home invasion and armed robbery, according to a release from Riverdale police. They are charged along with Rico Holmes, 16, for a home invasion Wednesday of an...

A situation that prompted Riverdale police to cordon off several streets early this morning was the aftermath of a home invasion, police said late this morning. A Riverdale officer on the scene early this morning explained the situtation as involving "a man with a gun" and said civilians were being kept out of the area for their own protection. But in a statement some hours later police said it was more than that. Police said they had recieved a call at 10:41 p.m....

A spokesman for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services confirmed today the agency is investigating abuse allegations in the death of a 6-month-old boy in Riverdale. Jamari Gray was pronounced dead Thursday at Hope Children's Hospital in Oak Lawn. "Our investigation is proceeding, based on a report we received on Oct. 13," said DCFS Spokesman Jimmie Whitelow, who added that it was the agency's first such complaint. "We've had no prior contact with this family.

The Cook County Sheriff's and Riverdale police departments worked together to arrest 15 people in a crackdown on illegal drug sales in Riverdale, police said today.The joint operation, dubbed "Operation Relocate," began in July and targeted street level drug sales throughout Riverdale, according to a sheriff's department news release. During the five-month investigation, undercover sheriff's police officers purchase heroin, cocaine and marijuana in increments between $20 and $150.

Riverdale police confirmed this afternoon that a patrol officer shot and killed a local man earlier today in an area that they described as "well-known for high narcotics and gangs. " A press release from Riverdale Police Chief Hollis Dorrough Jr. said the officer saw a vehicle with three people in it near the intersection of 145th Street and Michigan Avenue around 11:30 a.m. and ordered the three to show their hands. When the driver didn't comply, the officer "in fear for his life, fired one...

A 25-year-old motorist died early this morning after the car he was driving hit a light pole in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, officials said. Brian Kirby, of the 14000 block of South Tracy in Riverdale, was pronounced dead at 3:50 a.m. at Provident Hospital of Cook County, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. The accident happened about 3 a.m. on the 4700 block of South Morgan Street, said Larry Langford, a spokesman for the Chicago Fire Department. ...

Victims' relatives arrive at the scene of a fatal shooting on the 14300 block of South Clark Street in Riverdale today. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune). A businessman known for his charity and volunteer work was shot and killed this morning at his home in south suburban Riverdale. Melvin Burnside, 52, was taken on a stretcher from his home in the 14300 block of South Clark Street at about 3 a.m. He was pronounced dead about 20 minutes later at Ingalls Memorial Hospital in...

Riverdale police this morning released a new composite sketch of a man suspected in the sexual assaults of two teenage girls and a possible failed attempt on a third young woman. The sexual assaults occurred Thursday. The second sketch was developed during the investigation of an incident that occurred Wednesday involving a female who was approached by a man, Riverdale police said in a press release. The female was not harmed in the Wednesday incident and the man...

Police in south suburban Riverdale were consulting departments in neighboring towns to see if the man who sexually assaulted two teenage girls last week may have struck before. Authorities are also preparing a second composite sketch of the man who police said accosted the two 17-year-olds at gunpoint Thursday after they got off a Pace bus at 142nd and Halsted Streets, Riverdale police said in a news release. After the attack, the offender fled, and the teens ran to a home...

Riverdale police are searching for a man who sexually assaulted two 17-year-old girls at gunpoint in a yard in the south suburb, police said today. The attack occurred Thursday at about 7 p.m. on the 14200 block of Wallace, Riverdale police chief William McHenry said in a press release. The teens were walking home after getting off a Pace bus at 142nd and Halsted Streets when the man approached them and forced them at gunpoint into a yard where he sexually assaulted both...

Darryl Jackson knew his mother didn't want his girlfriend inside her home, so the 44-year-old Riverdale man holed up with her inside a sport utility vehicle in the garage Monday night before work, relatives said. When the temperature outside the garage dipped into the 20s, the couple clicked on the vehicle's heater and, apparently, fell asleep. After Jackson did not show up for work at a nightclub he helped run in Hammond, friends and family lifted the garage...